Peter W. Brooke
1545 Howe Hill Road
South Royalton, VT  05068 
pbrooke@sover.net

Born 1961.  Concord, MA. 

One Person Exhibitions

Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA
2009
"The Nearness of Distance"

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
2008
"Out in the Overcast"

Sanford Smith Fine Art,  Great Barrington, MA
2008
"Between the Edge of the Landscape"

The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
2007
"New Work on Paper"

Spheris Gallery , Hanover, NH
2006
"New Works on Paper"

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                           
2006
“Ice Storms, Vernal Pools and other Natural Phenomena”

Spheris Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT
2005
“Blurred- White and Drift”

Reeves Contemporary, NY, NY                                                            
2004
“The Inland Sea”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
2003
“Fuge”

Spheris Gallery, Bond St., NY, NY                                          
2002
“Hills, Elbowed and Stacked”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
2001
“Any Tree, Any Rock, Any Hill“

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
2001
“Landscape in Flux”

Spheris Gallery, Walpole, NH                                                                 
2000
“Hill Country”

Spheris Gallery, Bond St., NY, NY                                          
2000
“New Paintings”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1999
“Ballycastle” 
                                                                            
Fenn School Gallery, Concord, MA                                          
1999
“Paintings from Private Collections”

Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME                                                                
1998
“Variations”

Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA                                          
1998
“Paintings from Ballinglen”

Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia, PA                                                            
1998
“Works on Paper”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1997
“Irish Landscapes”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1997
“Passageways”

DSAC Gallery, Wilmington, DE                               
1996
“Tidewater”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
1995
“Bombay Hook”   
                           
Gallery II, Delaware Division of the Arts                                         
1994
“Fragments:New Drawings”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1993
“The Twelve Mile Circle”

Gallery NAGA Boston, MA                                                                  
1992
“New Landscape Paintings”

Gallery I Delaware Division of the Arts Wilmington, DE                               
1991
“Walking with NC Hicks”

Burke Gallery Denison University Granville, OH                                        
1989
“New Work”

Selected Group Exhibitions

Reeves Contemporary/ Great River Arts
2009
NH, NY
H2O Film on Water

Southern Vermont Art Cente
2009
Manchester, VT
Contemporary Landscapes

Endicott College
2009
Beverly, MA
Boston Paints

Philoctetes Center
2008
New York, NY
Pathetic Fallacy: Weather and Imagination

Dolan/Maxwell
2008
US Artists, Philadelphia, PA

Dolan/Maxwell
2008
New York Print Fair, NY, NY

Sanford Smith Fine Art
2008
Art 20, NY, NY

Maryland Institute College of Art
2008
"Naturally Inspired, Paintings by
Christine Neil and Peter Brooke"

Pastoral Exhibition
2007
Shelburn Farms, Shelburn Vt

Pastoral Exhibition
2006
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historis Park
Woodstock, VT

Spheris Gallery
2006
Group Exhibition

Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA                                                       
2005-6
“A Common Thread”

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY                                          
2005
“Re-presenting Representation”

Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME                                                                
2005
“The Poetic Landscape”

Marion Graves Mugar Gallery, Colby – Sawyer College                         
2004
“Contemporary Views of the Landscape”

Reeves Contemporary,NY,NY                                                                
2003
“Horizons”

Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Rhode Island                              
2003
“Eccentric Landscape”

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College                                                  
2003
“Eire/Land”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  

2002
“Nearly Everyone (who works small)”

The Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, IRE                              
2002
“Aisling Geal”

List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA                                                      
2001
“Passages from Ballinglen”

Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland                                      
2000
“New Images From North Mayo”

Spheris Gallery, Walpole ,NH                                   
2000
“Small Format Oil Paintings”

Decker Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD                                                   
2000
“Mt Royal 25th Anniversary”

Spheris Gallery, NY, NY                                                                         
1999-2004
“Armory Show”

Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME                                                                
1998-2005
"Gallery Artists”

Gluxman House at NYU, NY, NY                                                            
1999
“Landscape and Inspiration, The Ballinglen Experience”

McGowen Fine Art, Concord, NH                                               
1999
“A Way to Ireland”

Susan Conway Gallery, Washington, DC                                                
1998
“Christmas Show”

London Print Fair, Royal Academy, London, England                        
1998-2004

Dolan/Maxwell Gallery
Boston Center For the Arts, Boston, MA                              
1998
“The Drawing Show”

Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA                                                    
1997
“Fragments: A Contemporary Approach to Landscape"

Helen Day Arts Center, Stowe, VT                                           
1996
“The Art of Vermont”

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE                                                
1996
“Delaware Biennial”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1994
“Painter’s Drawings”

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX                                
1993
“Drawing into the 90’s”

Kipp Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN                        
1993
“Drawing Show”

Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA                                                                  
1992
“Previews”

University of Delaware, Newark, DE                                                       
1992
“Delaware Biennial: Works on Paper”

Laguna Gloria Arts Museum, Austin, TX                                           
1990-1993
“At the Edge”

Penn State University, State College, PA                              
1990
“Images 90”

Artscape, Baltimore, MD                                                   
1987

Public and Corporate Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
LaSalle Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland
The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
The Middlesex School, Concord, MA
The St. Andrews School, Middletown, DE
Advent International, Boston, MA
American Express, New York, NY
Aurora Capital, Los Angeles, CA
The Boston Golf Club, Hingham, MA
Brooke Private Equity, Boston, MA
Chase, New York, NY
City Bank, New York, NY
Deloitte & Touche, New York NY, Washington DC, Tysons Corner MD
Duane Morris & Hecksher
Fidelity Investments, Boston MA
JP Morgan, New York NY
MasterCard, New York NY
Pfizer, New York NY
Sloan Kettering, NY
Vangard, Scottsdale AZ
Wellington Management Company, Boston MA
Wilmington Trust, Wilmington DE

Bibliography

Books:
The Voice that Calls You Home, Andrea Raynor, Simon and Schuster, 2009
A Vision for Venture Capital,
Peter A. Brooke, University of New England Press,
2009
Refiguring the Ordinary
, Gail Weiss, Indiana University Press, 2008
Eire/Land
  Edited by Vera Kreilkamp, University of Chicago Press, 2003
New American Paintings; New England, Steven Zeritas, ed., The Open Studios Press, Wellesley MA, 2000
Body images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality, Gail Weiss, Routledge Press, 1999
New American Paintings; New England, Steven Zeritas, ed., The Open Studios Press, Wellesley MA, 1998

Periodicals:

Berkshire Eagle, Keith Shaw, “Precise Strokes Dissolving into Distance” July 2009
The Improper Bostonian,
Amanda Knorr, December 2008
Boston Daily on Line,
Mathew Reed Baker, “Notes on Culture” December 2008
The Boston Globe,
Kate McQuaid, Misty Magic, December 2008
MICA,
Tracy Lambros, “Naturally Inspired” April 2008
Boston Globe,
Kate McQuaid, "Peter brooke: Ice Storms, Vernal Pools and Other natural Phenomena" May 18, 2006
Pastoral, Pastoral #3 "Envisioning Landscape" 2006
Concord Monitor,
Victoria Shouldis “Setting the Scene” November 2004
New York Times, Ken Johnson, “The Price of Oil” November 2004
Boston Globe, Kate McQuaid “Peter Brooke: Fugue” November 2003
Boston Globe , Sam Allis “ Keeper of the flame” July 27, 2003
Irish Times,  Anna Mundow, “This land is ourland” March 15, 2003
Boston Globe, Jim Sullivan, “Ireland Minus the Blarney” Calendar, March 13, 2003
Providence Journal, Bill Van Siclen “Landscapes; Give And Take Between Old And New” February 27 2003
South County Independent, Doug Norris “Eccentric Landscape” February 20, 2003
Bay Windows, “Remembrances of exhibits past” June/July 2002
Boston Globe, Kate McQuaid, “Complex Ideas were Highlights of Exhibits” December 2001
Boston Globe, Kate McQuaid, “Brooke’s Landscapes a Breath of Fresh Air” December 2001
Art on Paper, “The Working Proof” Sept.-Oct. 2001
Retro-Rocket.com, Paul Parcellin, “Landscapes and Interiors” January 2001
Boston Globe Kate McQuaid, “Trees Are Painters Vision of Time,” January 11,2001
Rutland Daily Herald Robert Smith, “Brooke at Spheris” August 2000
Camden Herald David Grima, “Mulford Gallery Sparkles” June 2000
artsMEDIA Jill Waterman, “Tranquil Vistas Among Skyscrapers ” March 15-April 15 2000
Boston Globe Kate McQuaid, “Illuminating Two Visions of Irish Landscape” November 1999   
Boston Phoenix Christopher Millis, “Irish Eyes” October 1999
artsMEDIA Shawn Hill, “Peter Brooke: Ballycastle New Paintings” October 15-November 15, 1999
artsMedia Charles Giuliano, “Peter Brooke: Ballycastle New Paintings” October 15-November 15, 1999
Boston Globe Gail Kelley, “Parallel Exhibits” January 24,1999
Ireland of the Welcomes Alannah Hopkin, “Artist Center in Mayo” September 1998
The Irish Times Eileen Battersby, “Visual Vertigo” May 19, 1998
New American Paintings  February 1998
Boston Globe Cate McQuaid “Seeing the World Piece by Piece” June 28, 1997Bay Windows Tom Grabowsky “Name-Calling” September 24, 1992
Boston Globe Nancy Stapen “A Farewell Show; New Beginnings” July 3, 1992

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Returning Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland
2007, 1999, 1998

Listing, Boston Globe’s Top 10 Shows of 2001                                       
2001

Residency, Vermont Studio Center                                                  
1997

Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ireland                                      
1996-97
         
Individual Artists Fellowship, Delaware State Arts Council                  
1995-96
         
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Delaware State Arts Council                              
1990-91  

Education

MFA, Mount Royal School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art   
1986

BFA, Denison University, Granville, OH                                                    
1983